Nathan Yau

For ProPublica, Ellis Simani and Ken Schwencke compiled an interactive database that you…

Noah Veltman just posted a dataset of 23,463 personalized license plate applications that…

Sometimes illustrating scientific findings is a challenge. Sometimes the illustrations are published anyways,…

Over a year ago, Google released Dataset Search in public beta. The goal…

Using one of my recent projects as an example, I describe my non-elegant process of making a quick chart.

So get this. There are these things called radio stations that broadcast music…

File another one under the sounds-good-on-paper-but-really-challenging-in-practice. Kashmir Hill, for The New York Times,…

For The New York Times, Jennifer Valentino-DeVries looked at the current state of…

Following up on his mini-app to draw ridgeline maps for elevation, Andrei Kashcha…

For the Absurd America section of The Washington Post, Sergio Peçanha asks the…

A 3-D rendered map of Australia depicting a month of bushfires grew popular last week. Some thought it misleading. Others thought it was okay. It’s probably somewhere in the middle of that.

The Washington Post asked Democratic candidates a series of policy questions. To see…

When I think government structure, I tend to think in general overviews where…

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In 2007, Noah Kalina posted a time-lapse video…

It’s difficult to emphasize how much life changes when a child comes into…

Based on a Morning Consult/Politico survey, most people don’t know where Iran is:…

Outside of Australia, it can be a challenge to get a grasp of…

For those new to visualization, learning all of the methods, implementations, tools, and guidelines can seem like a daunting task. Not to mention everything that happens before the actual visualizing, such as analysis, data formatting, and context-making. You don’t have to learn it all at once.